Software Engineer - Rust - Consumer

As a Software Engineer on Kraken's Consumer team, you design and implement robust Rust services and libraries that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences for millions of users worldwide. The Consumer team focuses on building applications that expose Kraken's product offering to the mass market, with a mission to onboard the next 100 million people to crypto. You'll work on a suite of applications aimed at offering the simplest way for customers to interact with Kraken, requiring an extreme eye for detail, a passion for world-class user experiences, and a "ship fast but don't ship shit" attitude.

What you'll do

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences with a focus on reliability, performance, and user impact
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code that scales across teams and supports revenue-critical systems without compromising safety or security
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture, translating evolving product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions
• Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries
• Provide mentorship to other engineers while contributing to defining the technical culture

What you bring

• 3+ years of software engineering experience
• Proficiency in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust
• A security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness
• The ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application)
• A solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems, to design scalable solutions
• The ability to collaborate effectively with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for designing appropriate systems

About Kraken

Kraken, founded in 2011, is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions globally. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services. Kraken is part of Payward, a parent company that also operates NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks, building modern financial infrastructure to advance an open, global financial system.